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Maryland Dairy Ration 
Will you ffive balanced ration for milch 
cows fi'oin the following feeds? (’otton- 
seed meal. .$47; flaxseed meal, $47; bran, 
$.‘14; wheat middlings, $.‘14; brewers’ 
grain.s, $.‘10; corn is worth $1.15 per bu. 
I sell whole milk at .$2.2.5 per cwt. I 
have a grinder to grind my own corn and 
cob. I have a small amount of hay, 
clover and Timothy mixed, of which I 
want to feed them at night; have large 
quantity of com fodder I put a load of 
fodder in the i)ound every morning, about 
wliiit they would usually clean up I 
have on hand a ton of bran and 14 ton 
flaxseed meal. I have a silo filled with 
sil;>ge of Soy beans and corn, half and 
half, of fair quality; have a large quan¬ 
tity of straw and fodder that we feed in 
open pound, where cattle run in day time 
between milking periods; plenty of good 
pure water. Milk tests about 4 per cent 
Maryland. \v. a. w. 
Continue to feed straw and corn fod¬ 
der ad lib. Feed about 30 lbs. silage and 
40 lbs. mixed hay daily. Make up grain 
ration from feeds mentioned as follows: 
200 dried brewens’ grains, 100 oil meal, 
1(X> cottonseed meal, 100 bran, and 100 
of middlings This makes an excellent 
ration and one that is well balanced. 
Add one per cent, salt to grain mixture in 
mixing it up. Feed a pound of grain to 
3^/^ to 4 lbs. milk produced daily. 
ii. F. j. 
Mixture With Distillers’ Grains 
I have re.'id so much about distillers’ 
grains in cow rations in The R. N.-Y. 
that I have purchased a quantity. I am 
enclosing a tag from one of the bags. 
This stuff reminds me very much of what 
we used to call “malt sprouts.” It is al- 
wiiys convenient for us to get the follow¬ 
ing feeds here: Bran, middlings, mixed 
feed, cornmeal, gluten meal, gluten feed, 
cottonseed. I have sweet corn stalks for 
roughage, a quantity of rowen that I want 
to f('ed out, and Alfalfa hay. The cows 
are .Terseys, around SOO to 900 lbs. Will 
you balance a ration to include the dried 
distillei-s’ grains as shown on the enclosc'd 
tag? I would like to avoid the uee of 
either gluten or cottonseed, or both, if I 
could. II. B. G. 
Massachusetts. 
As you will note by tag the distilhu-s’ 
grains are largely malt sprouts. They 
are more palatable than malt si)routs, and 
contain more nutritive value. Feed about 
12 lbs. rowen and Alfalfa hay and 8 lbs- 
cornstalks per head i)er day. Jlake up 
grain ration of 2 parts dried distillers’ 
grains, 2 parts middlings or mixed feed, 
1 i)art cornme.-il. 1 part bran, and 1 i)er 
cent, salt . Feed grain at rate of a pound 
to 3% lbs. milk produced daily. This ra¬ 
tion should give excellent results, ii. f. j. 
Dairy Ration 
_ Will you advise the best, balanced ra¬ 
tion for butter, to be fed with silage (no 
corn in it) and good mixed hay, mostly 
clover? (lows are Ilolsteius, average 
size. Will you also give me a good bal¬ 
anced ration to pi-oduce the best flow of 
milk, with silage and mixed hay? 
New York. 'r. r. c. 
Since the per cent, of fat in milk is not 
increased by feeding there is piactically 
no diflerence between what ;;'ou term a 
butter ration and a milk producing ra¬ 
tion. The ration that j)roduces the max¬ 
imum amount of milk obviously lu’oduces 
the niaximum amount of butter also If 
one is making butter there are some feeds 
such as cottonseed meal, for example, 
which so affects the hardness of butterfat 
in milk that it is not desirable to feed 
them in too large amounts if there is no 
silage or Alfalfa hay in the ration to 
exert the opposite effect- The following 
ration would give you good results, 30 to 
35 lbs. silage and 12 lbs. hay per head per 
day and a pound of grain to 3^/4 lbs. of 
milk from the following mixture: 2 parts 
gluten feed, 2 parts dried distillers’ 
grains, 1 part dried brewers’ grains, 1 
part oil meal, % part bran and 1 per 
cent. salt. H. F. j. 
Ration for Holsteins 
Will you balance a ration for me? I 
have two grade Holsteins giving about 50 
lbs. milk per day; have plenty of clover 
hay and corn fodder. n. P. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
Feed about 15 lbs. clover hay and 10 
lbs. corn fodder per head per day. Make 
up grain ration of 1 part oil meal, 2 parts 
gluten feed, 1 part bran, and 1 part dried 
brewers’ or dried distillers’ grains- Add 
1 per cent, coarse fine salt to the ration 
in mixing it up. H. F. J. 
Improving Dairy Ration 
Will you give me a ration for my three 
cows, two fresh in August, and one this 
month? I have cracked corn, cob and all, 
bran, middlings, and cottonseed meal; 
corn fodder for roughage and some Tim¬ 
othy hay. My cottonseed has to be 
hauled some distance, costs me $1.85 per 
100 ibt.. Will it pay me to buy beet pulp 
and distillers’ grains the same way? 
Cows have gone back very much in their 
milk in the last month, since* the pasture 
has gone, and I think their feed is not 
right to take the place of pasture. 
Maryland. M. u. B. 
The ration you are feeding is decidedly 
unbalanced. As you .susi)ect it is entirely 
different from pasture. In the first place, 
it contains no succulence, and secondly it 
is lacking in protein. It is practically im- 
po.ssible to balance a ration for a dairy 
cow where the sole roughage is Timothy 
hay and corn fodder. This is because 
these feeds arc low in protein, and in or¬ 
der to make this up the grain ration must 
be made up almost entirely of cotton¬ 
seed or linseed meal, which are our high¬ 
est protein grain feeds. Y'ou doubtless 
have the corncob meal on hand as raised% 
on the farm. Now if yo\i could get some 
Alfalfa hay at a reasonable inuce. which 
you should be able to do in your Ktate. it 
would change the situation entirely. You 
could then feed about 2 parts hay to 1 of 
corn fodder, what cows will clean up. 
Then feed about 3 lbs. dried beet pulp per 
head daily, beet pulp should be soaked in 
about 10 lb.s. warm water. Make iq) 
grain ration of 1 part corn and cobmeal, 
2 parts bran, 1 part cottonseed meal. 
Feed grain at rate of 1 lb. to 4 lbs. milk 
produced daily. This ration should give 
excellent results. , 
If you cannot follow out this sugges¬ 
tion your present ration can be slightly 
improved, though not balanced, by drop¬ 
ping the middlings and bran and using 1 
part corn and cob meal, 2 parts dried 
distillers’ gi-ains, 2 parts cottonseed meal 
and 1 part oil meal You would then have 
to feed heavier of this grain than if you 
had Alfalfa or clover hay in the ration. 
II. F. J. 
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callow youth, eager to score off a well- 
known married suffragist who had just 
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ing an earnest, intimate note, “I don’t 
know about that, but I do think children 
should stay at home with their mothers.” 
•—Woman’s .Tournal. 
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